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Social Work profession deals with the human being and their problems. It is practiced on three levels micro, mezzo and macro level. It is also understood that dealing an individual problem is not an easy task and being a social worker need to be competent. This study made an attempt to assess the under graduate social work students on 8 core professional competencies. Descriptive research design was used to describe the professional competencies. The samples were randomly selected since it is a definite population. 156 under graduate social work students were selected and data was collected using questionnaire after getting their concern. More than half of the respondents chose Social Work because of no other course is been offered for marks they scored. Two third of the respondents are aspired to do Social Work. Two third of the respondents possess high level of professional Competencies. Respondents those aspired for Social Work have high level of professional competencies. Competencies are not stagnant, based on necessity it might change. Hence the Professional Competencies are to be mastered for effective practice. Periodic assessment of once one Professional Competencies, will aid the practice and desired outcome is possible.